100 Mile Nazi Death March Remembered by Allied POW
A survivor recalls the Sagan Death March of 1945 when 1,800 airmen were forced 100 miles from Poland to Germany in a blizzard. Only about 1,100 remained alive at liberation near Moosburg as Gen. Patton’s forces arrived. Lieutenant Colonel Emanuel Cassimatis, once a navigator, shares details of hunger, cold, and rescue.
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Sagan
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Stalag Luft 3
Two Await Sentencing For Train Wreck Try
Two youths Chester Erwin White and Dennis Keith Marks pleaded guilty in federal court to attempting to wreck a Frisco passenger train near Richland Missouri last July 26. They placed two railroad ties 20 feet apart on the tracks about 4 am ahead of a train carrying 77 people. The engineer Houston G. Bailey applied emergency brakes but the train struck the ties at about 50 miles per hour and safety inspectors said a derailment was possible.
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Chester Erwin White
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Dennis Keith Marks
Muncie
Houston G. Bailey
Missed Missile Gap myth shaped U S politics and race
A long look at how the non existent missile gap entered the 1960 campaign and fueled U S U S S R missile arms rise. Key figures include Eisenhower Kennedy Rostow Wiesner Salinger Kuznetsov and Dulles as the piece traces how fear and incomplete intelligence propelled a dangerous myth.
Tributes to Churchill Roll Across United States
Tributes to Sir Winston Churchill continue across the United States with state legislatures, governors, memorial services, and condolence books. In New York nearly 1,000 signed a condolence register at the British Consulate, while churches and universities held services and ceremonies in his memory.
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Sacred Co-Cathedral
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Free World
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Nat King Cole Recovers After Lung Surgery
Hollywood AP reports singer Nat King Cole convalesces after removal of left lung due to malignancy. A well worn telegram from actor Wayne Nate Cole cheered him during recovery at the hospital.
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Nat (King) Cole
John Wayne Encourages Cole After Lung Surgery
John Wayne wrote a telegram to Cole after the singer underwent lung surgery at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica. Doctors reported the tenacious 45 year old’s condition is satisfactory and the operation affected his singing career only to the extent of delaying planned performances. Wayne’s message, I licked it, so can you, has buoyed Cole’s wife Maria as he faces recovery following cobalt treatments for the tumor.
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Wayne
Las Vegas
Nev
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Los Angeles Music Center
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